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This is the second article of a two-part interview series. The first part was with Ruthann Kurose (…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • March 31, 2021

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The Elephant in My Rooms

One day I was walking around my house, and something stopped me. . .in fact, startled me. I suddenl…

Carolee Okamoto • March 30, 2021

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Different Perspective: A Nikkeijin's Questions on Humanity's Responses to Economic Uncertainty

Is ignorance really bliss? What does it mean when people say, “I can’t wait for things …

Tuney-Tosheia P. McDaniels • March 25, 2021

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The Effects from Being Dumped into the Concentration Camps as a Boy

What do you think would be the aftermath of the concentration camps? Bitterness, depression, anger?…

Robert H. Kono • March 14, 2021

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Linus Pauling: Advisor and Advocate

In a previous article for Discover Nikkei, I profiled the life work of Harvey Itano, the first Japa…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 8, 2021

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Nikkei Chronicles #9—More Than a Game: Nikkei Sports

Stranger Skater From Nowhere

October 31, 2020 Wow, lost the first draft… So going to write in one sitting. Technology …

Spencer Fujimoto • Nov. 10, 2020

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Keywords For Being Nikkei In A Moment of Racial Reckoning

“I recognized that the heartbeat, historically, of racism, has been denial.” —…

Tamiko Nimura • July 15, 2020

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Karma of Becoming American

In the section under COVID-19 safety precautions, the Department of Homeland Security letter addres…

Duncan Ryūken Williams • July 10, 2020

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The uses and abuses of memory: ways of forgetting and remembering the persecution of Japanese communities

In 2012, historian John W. Dower published a book with various essays on the history and relations …

Sergio Hernández Galindo • June 30, 2020

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The Pulitzer Prize and Japanese Americans in the South

As with other tragic chapters in United States history, the incarceration of Japanese Americans has…

Jonathan van Harmelen • June 29, 2020

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